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Traditional hunting gets headlines, but is not the big threat to turtles and dugongs

  • Written by: Helene Marsh, Dean, Graduate Research, James Cook University
imageTraditional hunting poses no threat to dugongs. Flickr, CC BY-SA

Recent calls for a ban on legal traditional hunting of dugongs and marine turtles imply that hunting is the main threat to these iconic species in Australia. The science indicates otherwise.

While more is being done to address traditional hunting than any of the other impacts, the main...

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What’s next for Italy?

  • Written by: Giovanni Navarria, Associate, Sydney Democracy Network, School of Social and Political Sciences (SSPS), University of Sydney
imageItalians voted "No" by a convincing margin in the referendum on constitutional change.

A referendum is not (and should not be comparable to) a general election; they are two different kinds of electoral instruments. The former asks the people to express their opinion on one or more issues (usually by means of a yes or no option). The latter instead...

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Does medical research funding need a paradigm shift?

  • Written by: Andrew Whitehouse, Winthrop Professor, Telethon Kids Institute, University of Western Australia

I first learnt about autism as an 18-year-old during my clinical training. Like most people, I’d heard about Rain Man, and also like most people, I’d never thought I’d look deeper than this thin caricature.

But then I did look deeper, and saw the extraordinary human experience that is at the core of every family touched by...

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When planning falls short: the challenges of informal settlements

  • Written by: Hesam Kamalipour, PhD Candidate and Research Assistant in Urban Design, University of Melbourne

Informal settlements house around one-quarter of the world’s urban population. This means roughly 1 billion urban dwellers live in settlements that have emerged outside of the state’s control.

The Habitat III conference in Quito in October recognised informal settlements as a critical issue for sustainable urban development. But how did...

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  2. Why OPEC's squeeze on oil prices is getting weaker all the time
  3. Great Barrier Reef needs far more help than Australia claims in its latest report to UNESCO
  4. Australians can have zero-emission electricity, without blowing the bill
  5. 'We lost the house, we lost everything': what dealing with financial stress looks like
  6. The limits of empathy: Matthew Flinders' encounters with Indigenous Australians
  7. Listen up: running sounds contain clues for injury prevention
  8. Australia's political elites are fiddling while Rome burns
  9. Our ideas about vertebrate evolution challenged by a new tree of life
  10. The Christmas Film Recommendables - Part 4
  11. The 'no' vote in Italy's referendum triggers economic and political uncertainty
  12. Tipping the scales on Christmas Island: wasps and bugs use other species, so why can’t we?
  13. Your smartphone knows a lot about you, but what about your mental health?
  14. Why we should no longer consider Last Tango in Paris 'a classic'
  15. Introducing competition to the health sector should be treated with caution
  16. Abbott 'dismayed' by report of end of his Green Army
  17. Australia's 'great green boom' of 2010-11 has been undone by drought
  18. John Key quits while he's ahead – so what's next for New Zealand politics?
  19. Goodbye, Dolly, the magazine that helped so many young women grow up
  20. Financial wizardry alone won't stave off a Chinese debt crisis
  21. Could a cannabis pill reduce chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting? Here's how we find out
  22. Health Check: do home remedies for common warts really work?
  23. Why don't more people volunteer? Misconceptions don't help
  24. Governments need to look beyond education rankings and focus on inequities in the system
  25. Neighbours' fears about affordable housing are worse than any impacts
  26. From 'fascists' to 'feminazis': how both sides of politics are biased in their political thinking
  27. The worst year for mosquitoes ever? Here's how we find out
  28. Can we blame climate change for thunderstorm asthma?
  29. The Business Council of Australia and its new head need a reality check
  30. Imitation game: how copies can solve our cultural heritage crises
  31. What can Australia learn from Germany's remarkable energy transition?
  32. Nitrogen pollution: the forgotten element of climate change
  33. The Christmas Film Recommendables - Part 3
  34. The underbelly of sport: Dirty Games
  35. Trump rewrites the diplomatic rule book
  36. Will Italy's referendum trigger the next crisis?
  37. A New Politics of Time
  38. ABCC amended local content rules will help Australian steelmakers compete against low-quality imports
  39. Pinchgut's Theodora brings the irrational power of love to uncertain times
  40. Inquiry into Lyme-like illness calls for more research and better treatment
  41. South Australia's reasons for voting down euthanasia go against the evidence
  42. Great Barrier Reef report to UN shows the poor progress on water quality
  43. Three ways to boost science performance in Australian schools
  44. On the pleasure of smoking
  45. Looking back at Italy 1992: a country stuck in the centre in 2016
  46. Everyone's talking but no-one's listening: it's time to reclaim the art of communication
  47. Parliament finishes for 2016, capping off a messy, turbulent year
  48. Don't expect a rerun of the Asian Financial Crisis
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